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The Circinus West molecular cloud has been captured by the 570-megapixel Dark Energy Camera (DECam). DECam is mounted on the U.S. National Science Foundation Víctor M. Blanco 4-meter telescope at ...

There’s something special going on in the nearby Circinus galaxy, as revealed by this image from NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE. The Circinus galaxy is located in the ...

Using the National Radio Astronomy Observatory's Very Large Array, astronomers have revealed for the first time the huge flow of gas near a massive star in the making that allows its rapid growth. A ...

We think of supermassive black holes as gorging cosmic monsters, swallowing up anything that gets too close, but according to a recent study, the supermassive black hole at the heart of a nearby ...

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Millennia ago, and 26,000 light years distant in the dim and somewhat unremarkable constellation of Circinus, a monster was born. And when that happened, it gave out a heck of a birth cry. The baby in ...

Data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory has revealed faint remnants of a supernova explosion and helped researchers determine that Circinus X-1 — an X-ray binary — is the youngest of this class of ...